ArticleChild development2016
Longitudinal Associations Between the Quality of Mother-Infant Interactions and Brain Development Across Infancy.
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- Is infant neural sensitivity to vocal emotion associated with mother-infant relational experience?PloS one · 2019Trial
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- Understanding the relationship between child stimulation and brain function using neuroimaging techniques and behavioral measures: a study protocol.BMC psychology · 2025Article
- Infant frontal EEG asymmetry across an emotion-eliciting task: Leveraging novel quantitative approaches to discern links with parent-child interactions.Infant behavior & development · 2025Article
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- Sensitive infant care tunes a frontotemporal interbrain network in adolescence.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Maternal suicide risk predicts preschooler emotional and behavioral problems.Psychiatry research · 2024Article
- Mother-infant self- and interactive contingency at four months and infant cognition at one year: A view from microanalysis.Infant behavior & development · 2024Article
- Mother-infant interaction characteristics associate with infant falling reactivity and child peer problems at pre-school age.PloS one · 2024Article
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Abstract
The aim of this study was to investigate if normative variations in parenting relate to brain development among typically developing children. A sample of 352 mother-infant dyads came to the laboratory when infants were 5, 10, and 24 months of age (final N = 215). At each visit, child resting electroencephalography (EEG) was recorded. Mother-infant interactions were videotaped at the 5-month visit. The results indicated that higher quality maternal behavior during mother-infant interactions predicted higher frontal resting EEG power at 10 and 24 months, as well as increases in power between 5 and 10 months, and between 10 and 24 months. These findings provide rare support for the hypothesis that normative variation in parenting quality may contribute to brain development among typically developing infants.
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